Speaker

Tyler MitchellTimberline Forest Inventory Consultants

Tyler Mitchell is a geographer, open source enthusiast and the author of Web
Mapping Illustrated (O'Reilly). His foray into the open source world began
while looking for alternatives to proprietary mapping products. He is an
avid user of the popular web mapping program, MapServer, and other spatial
data management tools. This allows him to provide innovative, powerful and
cost-effective solutions for natural resource management.

Mitchell holds a degree in geography from Lakehead University and has applied
his data management expertise to the forest industry since 1996. He now
works as a GIS manager for Timberline Forest Inventory Consultants in British
Columbia, Canada.

Mitchell is a regular speaker and workshop leader at GIS conferences. He will
be writing a regular open source GIS column for Directions Magazine and
maintains a weblog on the O'Reilly Network.